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BOOK II.
CRAP. III.
Other Irish
settlers in
Iceland.
104 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
Pagan temple in the colony),
became the mother ol
Thorgriin, whose son was Snorri, the celebrated lag-
1
man and priest. OfThorsteinnthe Red's daughters,
Oska married Haltsteinn, also a son of Thorolf
Mostrarskegg, and another daughter, Thorgerda,
married Kollus, who took possession of the whole of
the Laxdsele, and thence obtained the name of Dal-
Kollus. 2
After Dal-Kollus's death, Thorgerda
married Herjolf, and became mother of Hrut, a
patriarchal chief, whose family may be estimated from
the statement that he rode to the " Althing "
meeting
attended by fourteen full-grown sons on horseback.
Such were among the emigrants furnished by ihe
royal families of Aulaf and Cearbhall ; but, added to
these we find a large number of settlers of Irish
extraction. According to the Landnamabok, one
of the slaves brought to Iceland by Auda was " Erps,
son of Meldun, a Scotch earl, slain by Sigurd the
Powerful." The mother of Erps was Mirgeol,
daughter of Gljomal, King of Ireland. Sigurd took
Mirgeol and Erps and enslaved them," 3 but being
enfranchised by Auda, Erps married, and fixed his
residence at Saudafels, where a numerous progeny
sprung from this mixture of Irish and Scandinavian
blood. 4
Thormodr Gamli and Keltic, sons of Bresii, came
1 Lanclnamab., 95. Niall's Saga,
v ^85, says
fii'mself.
* Ibid., 113.
1
Ibid., p. 108.
Ibid., p.
she married Thorolf
112. Glioinal was
probably Gluuiaran, who reigned
in Dublin with Aulaf in 890. His
son, Gluntradhna, and Aulaf were
killed in battle in 891. Mirgeol
is the Irish Muirghael. One of
that name was wife of the King of
Leiuster in A.D. 852, and Gluniaran,
connected with the Irish, may have
given the name to his daughter.